Monkeyhouse Zendo:varmitydog: Used to be they would make you read stuff like "man without a country" in English class, now they stomp on the flag. Then pay the douchebag so he won't sue when they can his sorry ass. This is not a change for the better.

Ah the halcyon days of Leave It To Beaver, where men were men, women were women, and the blacks knew there place. Amirite?

So, what you are saying is that you can't write very well or convey your meaning well, and therefore I should somehow magically get "the point" from gibberish that doesn't in fact have a point . Gotcha.

There should have been a clause requiring the involved officials to state publicly that "we are grandstanding buffoons who were about to get our asses handed to us in court who don't understand the empty patriotism we toss around like confetti." The only real shame here is that the taxpayers are paying this fine, not the morons who caused it to be incurred.